‘Sex Box’ Uncovered

WE tv’s new couples-therapy show is not the place to look for the cheapest thrills

The premise of the new reality series “Sex Box” is that troubled couples can describe their problems to celebrity counselors before a live audience, go into an opaque box onstage, have sexual relations, and emerge ready to let advice from the counselors help heal their relationship. Nobody believes that. The only question is whether the circus is fun to watch.

Despite the publicity about a petition against the show by the Parents Television Council—which is the same kind of catnip as those 1950s horror-movie...